Well, no-one seems to have noticed any of the gremlins that crept into last month’s issue, so I must have got away with it! Someone asked was the version with the cover on the wrong way up or the version with the cover on the right way up the best one to keep. Get one of each, saith I. I had all sorts of computer problems at just the time of the month when you least need them - printers were packing up, computers crashing around my ears, adverts refusing to look like they did last month, etc, ...and then, the best thing since sliced bread went awol. You’ve probably noticed that page1 is on the same piece of paper as page 36, and that page 2 is on the same piece of paper as page 35 (usually, anyway). Also, page 36 is on the left side of the sheet and page 1 is on the right side - but it’s the other way round for pages 2 and 35. All pretty clever stuff - which I get the computer to do all by itself. And that’s what bust. I had to copy page 1 and paste it opposite page 36, etc, and trust to luck that it came out allright in the wash. Hours it took. So... to prevent such things happening again for a while I gave my computer a spring clean. Delete everything and start again. This happens about once a year, and you always forget to make a copy of at least one thing you’re going to regret! Anyway everything went well, etc. Until I cam to print the magazine this month, when the printers decided to throw a tantrum... and network printers having a tantrum is like John McEnroe with the sulks big time. Put paper in the bottom tray and it’ll ask for paper in the top tray. Satisfy its craving and it changes its mind and wants paper in the bottom tray. One printer refused to print anything at all until the other one had finished what it was doing. Reset everything, fiddle about for half an hour and try the new settings. A whole different tantrum this time. 3.45pm, everything’s running smoothly. Trouble is I started at 10am. So, time to print page 1...
Last month there was an item from the Parish Council about getting the overhead cables in the Square buried underground. Well there are more people living in Lower Village than on the Square, and we’ve got more overhead cables too (there are 22 cables sprouting from the main pole in Rose Bailey’s garden, and 7 more from the other one). Burying cables on the Square will make it nicer for however few visitors we get from now on, whereas burying cables in Lower Village would benefit people who live down here. Also, it would be a smart move to bury cables under Peterswell Lane now, before it is tarmacced over, rather than later!
Monday it was sunny with rain forecast for Tuesday onwards, so I mowed the lawn. Tuesday was fine with Wednesday expected wet and cold. Looks pretty sunny from where I’m sitting (next to the printers, obviously!). Bet it rains as soon as I’ve stapled all the pages together. Oh, no, I’ve not got a cover yet...
Foot and Mouth looks like it may be subsiding, with access to parts of Dartmoor and livestock movements again as long as it’s to abattoirs that are less than 4 and a half hours away... almost all the way back up to Northumberland then... lessons learnt so far, apparently none!
Deadline for stories, articles, covers, photos of broken windmills etc, for inclusion within the June issue to reach the editor, who is me, by 20th of the month of May ...to the usual suspects, i.e. Lower Village, Phil, 241748, Hillcrest, turbines@bradworthy.co.uk, tel, Mayhall, 241167, fax ...but not necessarily in that order. got a bit of a thing about ellipsises, or is that ellipsis’, or even ellipsis’s, who knows, this month...
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